§ Mr. PARKINSONasked the Secretary for Mines if he will give for each of the districts mentioned in the first column of table 42 on page 293 of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry, and for Great Britain as a whole, the figures showing, in shillings and decimals thereof, the profit and loss at the present rates of wages if the existing royalties were extinguished without compensation; and the figures showing, in shillings and decimals thereof, the profit and loss if the existing royalties were extinguished without compensation, and if wages were reduced 10 per centum?
§ Colonel LANE FOXThe figures in columns 5 and 7 of the table referred to, if payments for royalties and wayleaves had been excluded, would have been as follow:
District. Profit or Loss before charging Royalties. Profit for Loss before charging Royalties and after reducing Wages by 10 per cent. Shillings. Shillings. Scotland - 1.25 - 0.09 Northumberland - 2.43 - 1.33 Durham - 2.40 - 1.25 South Wales and Monmouth. - 2.44 - 1.00 South Yorkshire* + 0.03 + 1.19 West Yorkshire* + 0.61 + 1.84 Notts and Derby* + 0.35 + 1.50 Leicester, Cannock Chase and Warwick* + 1.49 + 2.66 Eastern Division + 0.58 + 1.75 Lancashire, Cheshire and North Staffs. - 0.46 + 1.03 Other Districts - 1.90 - 0.51 Great Britain - 0.95 + 0.30 * Particulars of Royalties for these districts separately, are not available. The figures shown are based on the average Royalty per ton for the Eastern Division as a. whole.